Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 39
But it was agreed, that, if he could bring thither the beautiful princess, he should live, and have the bird and the horse given him for his own.
Who acts: son, horse · What happens: agree, bring, live, have, give · To what, where: saddle, beautiful princess, bird, son
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Bird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, horse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 agreed | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 agreed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 agreed | aux:pass |
| 4 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 that | punct |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 agreed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bring | punct |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 bring | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bring | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 bring | aux |
| 11 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 agreed | conj |
| 12 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 15 princess | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 princess | det |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 princess | amod |
| 15 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bring | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 live | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 live | nsubj |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 live | aux |
| 19 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 bring | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 have | cc |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 live | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bird | det |
| 24 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 have | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 horse | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 horse | det |
| 27 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bird | conj |
| 28 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 horse | acl |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 given | obj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 own | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 own | nmod:poss |
| 32 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 given | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past · passive | saddle | that obl | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bring a condition, not said to happen | could | son | the beautiful princess | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument princess=Destination | ||||
| 3 | live | should | son | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | have | infinitive | son not said here | the bird and the horse | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient | ||||
| 5 | give | participle | the horse not said here | son | for son's own | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme for own=Asset |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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